I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion

Giving information that will help everybody live better. That's a teacher's dream - to accumulate information and disperse it in a form that allows people to choose the way they're going to use it. That's what I think I do best.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining.

I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don't think they should rip up the Rose Garden, because that's something that I love. They should probably dig up another patch and grow some vegetables there.